Episode 64: Centrist Unicorn Hunt
CakeWatch
Chris Kendall/Steve Bullock
4.8 • 165 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Steve studied moral philosophy. (So did Chris but he doesn't get a word in edgeways.) We look at the ethics of tactical voting in the 2019 general election, and why you should hold your nose and vote for a candidate from a party you might not endorse as a party of government. Not just because you want to Remain in the EU, but also because you want to avert a catastrophic Johnson majority and engineer a situation where your first and second order goals might, just might, see the light of day.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a new roadblock. |
| 0:02.7 | It's fake democracy. |
| 0:05.5 | We're going up the wrong way. |
| 0:08.4 | We're going to have to stop. |
| 0:11.2 | A secret was. |
| 0:13.9 | They can expose them all. |
| 0:16.5 | We're going up the wrong way. |
| 0:19.5 | We're going to have to stop. Searlings off. Welcome to episode of the wrong way. We're going to have to stop. |
| 0:23.3 | See the least off. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to episode 64 of the Cake Watch podcast. |
| 0:27.4 | An irregular exploration of Brexit and its implications from a Brussels perspective by me, Chris Kendall. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm an official with the European Union |
| 0:39.1 | institutions in Brussels. That's purely, by the way, I'm podcasting in a strictly personal |
| 0:46.9 | capacity. And with me is... Steve Bullock. I'm an ex-negotiator for the UK in the EU and also here in Brussels. |
| 0:57.6 | And I'm calling it irregular because we haven't done one for three weeks. |
| 1:03.0 | It's infrequent and irregular. |
| 1:04.9 | Yeah, no, we've... |
| 1:06.0 | It was frequent and irregular and now it's infrequent and irregular. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, we've fallen away from our weekly rhythm. |
| 1:12.8 | And there are reasons for that. |
| 1:14.2 | I had a really interesting experience in the office last week, which is a colleague of |
| 1:18.3 | mine, a French colleague of mine, who's quite fascinated by the car crash of Brexit. |
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